But, to cheer myself up, I'll show you what we were up to yesterday. Like everyone else and their mom, we were outside watching the eclipse with their mom. I mean, we were outside watching the eclipse with my mom.
She came up Sunday night, and brought with her eclipse glasses and all the supplies to make pinhole viewers for the kids. Because our city is right-smack-dab in the zone of totality, we had big plans to view everything from the backyard as best we could. (Our neighborhood is very "tree-sy," so we only have one small circle in the backyard through which you can actually see the sky. It was iffy there for a while as to whether we'd have to go elsewhere to view, but lucky us, the sun peeked right through it the entire time.)
I laid Callista and Rocco down for nap early so that we didn't have to worry about them blinding themselves, and I made the middle kids tape their eclipse glasses to their faces so there wouldn't be any accidents. Finneas was thrilled. (He actually didn't mind the tape, but he didn't get the pair of glasses he was hoping for. Life in a big family is full of drama.)
We would toggle back and forth between outside and inside - we'd head out for a few minutes to see what the sun was up to, then head in to document our observations in our nature journals.
The outside-inside-outside-inside transition made the glasses-swapping downright chaos.
Finneas tried to tape his own eclipse glasses to his face, and then couldn't figure out why he couldn't find the sun...
Todd came home on his lunch break to show us all how to really rock the shades, and Finneas eventually got the glasses he had been coveting, so everybody's day was made.
Overall, it was so much fun, and the best part was getting to share a (sort of) once-in-a-lifetime event with the kids. Here's to hoping the next once-in-a-lifetime total eclipse that's coming in seven years is as cool.
2 comments :
finneas with the tape over the lens of the glasses! i love that!
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